Beta access violation

[JEdwardP]

I'm getting an intermittent "EAccess violation" error when starting 1.10.06 beta. This alternates with a more standard looking access violation dialog that gives an address for the violation.

Jim

WinXP Home-sp2
256 MB RAM
1.4 GHz AMD Athlon

[mouser]

i hate to see a post like that from a new donator - please accept my apologies.
we'll get this sorted out with your help - thank you for reporting the error.

can you try this:

try exiting program (make sure its not running in tray) and going into Clipboard Help+Spell directory
and deleting the files:
Last.preset.dock
Last.preset.grid
Last.preset

then restarting.

see if that helps.

if that fails you could try deleting:
ClipboardHelpAndSpell.ini
from the Clipboard Help+Spell directory.

if that doesn't cure it - do you notice any pattern to the errors?

[jgpaiva]

It has happened to me having such errors because when i installed the latest beta, it didn't remove the older program i had there (because apparently, it was named "clipboard help and spell.exe" while the new one is "clipboardhelpandspell.exe").

I also had a similar problem when i created a shortcut, so, how are you launching the program, from a shortcut or from the xexcutable itself?

[JEdwardP]

I couldn't get a firm pattern on the access violations, so I just did a clean install.

I ordinarily don't install any betas on top of a beta, but I couldn't definitely remember uninstalling the previous one (which was the first version of CHS I ever used), so I'm assuming I didn't.

So far, all seems well with the clean install, but the situation begs a new question. Which files actually contain my saved clips, and are those files likely to be safe to move between beta installations?

Thanks, both of you, for your help,

Jim 

[mouser]

Which files actually contain my saved clips, and are those files likely to be safe to move between beta installations?

the Database subdirectory in clipboard help+spell directory contains all the data for your clips.

yes, you can move them at will to a new machine, or back them up etc.
(though chs already makes backups)